Play Assignment Box

Assignment of sound to all keys are done in this box.

You need to click on the key name to edit or view it's assignment.

Choose a sound source using the sound source button.

Two sound sources ("Wave" and "Midi") are available to choose from. You ca nalso choose an action to be done while for a key, like "None" means nothing is chosen.

Sound Sources Wave:

Choose "Wave" to use an existing wave file.

If you choose "Wave" sound source, you choose a wave file using the select file button. You will see the file name and the duration there.

Save wave in Orchestra file: Normally keep it checked so that the wave data is inside the orchestra file, that will make it easier to move the orchestra file from one PC to other, the wave file is not needed after you select once.

You can leave it unchecked only if you want to keep the orchestra file small and you are going to use the orchestra file only on one PC, you should not delete or move the wave file from its original place.

Play Style:

There are four play styles, choose any one as needed. Play stules are use for wave sound source only.

Play Style Once: Plays a sound once for every pressing of its key. You can set it either to allow or not to allow duplicate play.

Allow Duplicate Play: Normally keep it checked. This will allow the same sound to start playing even before the previous playing is complete; There will be multiple duplicate sound playing simultaneously, this is recommended for normal use. Uncheck this if you want the sound to be playing only once at a time; pressing a key will not play if the sound is already playing.

Play Style Multi: Plays a sound multiple times as per variable delay times you choose.

Delay play times (list): Enter the list of delay times for every repeat of the same sound, separate the numbers with commas ",". These delays are the time differences from the time the key is pressed to the time the sound need to play.

For example if you have entered "0,0.5,0.7,1.2", this is defined to play 4 times. For "0" play the sound once as soon as the key is pressed; for "0.5" play the sound second time after 0.5 second from the time the key was pressed; for "0.7" play the sound third time after 0.7 second from the time the key was pressed; and so on.

Allow Duplicate Play: This option is always ON(checked) in case of Play Style Multi. Even if the delay time is less then the duration of the sound it has to play.

Play Style Loop: Loops the sound continuously or required no of times. Pressing it's key will start or stop the sound. You can see the key's icon in the sub board changed when the sound is looping.

Continuous / No of Times: Choose "Continuous" if the sound should keep loop playing endlessly until its key is pressed again to stop it. Choose "No of Times" if the sound should stop after repeating the specified no of times. If its key is pressed before the no of times are completed it will stop early.

Play Style Queue: Like many other DJ or music player software this will queue the sound or song and play one by one. You can have single or multiple (up to five) queues running concurrently, choose the queue name from the drop down list (Key names are First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth). You can set it either to allow duplicate play, or leave it normal that will allow duplicate play, or you can choose loop - this loop will make the sound to play in looping this sound if the queue is empty. This loop option is like having a default sound for a queue, when no other sound is in queue this sound will keep playing in loop.

Sound Sources Midi:

Choose "Midi" to use a standard Midi instrument or a Drum from the standard GM bank.

Instrument: There are 128 instrument available to choose from the drop down list.

Key no.: Choose a key number from 0 to 127.

Velocity: This is the velocity at which the midi key is hit, that is the volume.

Duration: Midi sound duration can be applied on some midi drives and on other devices only five duration are supported. This is in seconds, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0 and 1.5 are there to choose. Use the arrow to change.

Drum: Making this Drum Option ON will change to drums instead of instruments.

Drum Bank: There are 9 Drum banks to choose from the drop down list. For some drum midi devices drum bank is not used.

Drum No: Change the drum number to change the drum. While you change the drum number you can see the drum name there.

Velocity: This is the velocity at which the midi drum key is hit, that is the volume.